Rohitha Rajasker

Rohitha Rajasekar is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University. She received her BS in Nutritional Sciences from Michigan State University and earned a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Grand Valley State University. Rohitha’s research focuses on the epidemiology of mental health related conditions specifically suicide and gun violence, with an emphasis on how nutritional aspects can affect susceptibility to mental health conditions like major depression and schizophrenia. Through this research, Rohitha’s passion lies in improving suicide rates among Indian American men by looking at the stigmas surrounding why Indian American men choose not to seek therapy or other avenues of improving their mental health and other holistic approaches they may take to prevent suicide. She is also dedicated to improving responses to public health outbreaks such as COVID for future infectious related threats through airborne transmission.

rajasek3@msu.edu